Marc A Olshan

Datos Biográficos

ID3923914
NOMBREMarc A Olshan
NOMBRESMarc A
APELLIDOOlshan
FIRMAOLSHAN M A
AFILIACIONESAlfred University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1990
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN1995
ÍNDICE H2

  • The Amish Struggle with Modernity

    Armand L Mauss, Donald B Kraybill et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

  • The Amish Struggle with Modernity

    Lori Beaman-Hall, Donald B Kraybill et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion1995

    Journal Article The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1994, 304 pp. $17.95 (paper) Get access Lori Beaman-Hall Lori Beaman-Hall St. Thomas University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 345–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711832 Published: 01 October 1995

  • The Amish Struggle with Modernity

    Thomas C Langham, Donald B Kraybill et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1995

    Throughout their history, the Amish communities of North America have tried to remain separate from the currents of progress that swirl in the larger society. The authors and others argue that although the nation s nearly 140,000 Amish continue to resist the influence of worldly institutions, the communities have nonetheless acquiesced to modernity in significant ways. Such change has not been easy and The Amish Struggle with Modernity examines o…

  • Standards-Making Organizations and the Rationalization of American Life

    Open AccessMarc A OlshanARTICLESociological Quarterly1993Citada por: 6Referencias: 11

    Standards for products and procedures shape every facet of contemporary American life. Yet despite their pervasiveness and their centrality to the process of rationalization, standards have been virtually ignored by sociologists. This paper argues that the evolution of standards promulgating organizations and their struggle for control of the standards-making process is a neglected feature of societal rationalization. Specifically, the history of…

  • The Opening of Amish Society

    Marc A Olshan, Marc OlshanARTICLEHuman Organization1991Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    The Amish ideal of separation from the world has inevitably been tempered by economic exigencies. In the last 20 years in particular, rising land prices and other economic pressures have pushed the majority of Amish out of agriculture into wage labor or into household businesses that offer goods and services to the public. These cottage industries, supplying everything from baked goods to diesel engine repair, have been defended as more consisten…

  • The Old Order Amish Steering Committee

    Marc A OlshanARTICLESocial Forces1990Citada por: 1

    Journal Article The Old Order Amish Steering Committee: A Case Study in Organizational Evolution Get access Marc A. Olshan Marc A. Olshan Alfred University Direct correspondence to Marc A. Olshan at the Division of Social Science, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 69, Issue 2, December 1990, Pages 603–616, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/69.2.603 Publishe…